There are a lot of stories The Temple News has missed in the past. There are community stories that matter to this university, that matter to this city, that matter, if only by the trends
I was just waiting for someone to come down and bother me from the highest floors in the building. It was inevitably going to happen. I had already seen students – some embarrassed, some flat-out
“Great cities need great universities, and great universities need great cities,” was one of the first sound bites President Dr. Ann Weaver Hart gave us when she arrived for her first tour of Main Campus.
A once rare creature on college campuses, the super senior has become a new strain of student. Every year, it seems more and more seniors spend more than four years in college because of switched
When Philadelphia is down, the kicking begins. It kills me to see my beloved hometown be the subject of so much negative coverage and ridicule over our high murder rate. I’m betting that New Yorkers
Philadelphia has it pretty tough. It exists in the shadow cast by New York City in the north and is often overlooked due to the fact that Washington, D.C., is so close in the south.
Finals week is upon us and the student body is in rare form. Students are dusting off $80 textbooks they haven’t used all year and are attempting to teach themselves an entire semester’s worth of
“Selena has two mommies.” This surprising announcement was made by Selena’s friend at the summer camp where I met the two 8-year-old girls last summer. The statement wasn’t surprising because the girl had two mothers,
On Capitol Hill, the president and Congress are at odds over an emergency appropriations bill that would set a timetable for the Iraq War and allow for more money to be earmarked for defense spending.